Gafcon and GSFA: A Delicate Dance
by David Virtue, VOL:
Two orthodox Anglican ministries representing millions of Anglicans globally, find themselves contending for the Anglican mind even as Western Anglicanism declines; the consequences of moral and theological decisions that have shriveled its pews and pulpits.
The Gafcon journey began in 2008 when moral compromise, doctrinal error, and the collapse of biblical witness in parts of the Anglican communion had reached such a level that the leaders of the majority of the world’s Anglicans felt it was necessary to take a united stand for truth.
The Global South Fellowship of Anglican churches (GSFA) made up of 25 provinces
was born in 1994, and includes 22 provinces of the Anglican Communion, plus the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican Church in Brazil. The Anglican Diocese of Sydney is also officially listed as a member.
Both have an honorable history in resisting the revisionist trends in the mostly western Anglican churches who have capitulated on human sexuality under pressure from a handful of pansexualists, and other faith issues, that have gnawed away at global Anglicanism and the historic faith for nearly four decades.
Compounding the dance is that many of the same archbishops can be found in both camps.
The consecration of Gene Robinson in 2003 caused a division in the worldwide Anglican Communion, and out of this came the ACNA. This capitulation to the cultural zeitgeist was the final straw. In 2008 GAFCON was formed. The Episcopal Church (TEC) has never recovered from this apostate act. Robinson has refused to repent and TEC has gone full steam ahead ordaining more homosexuals to the episcopacy. The only other Anglican province to follow suit is the Anglican Church of Canada.
The Church of England, while not formally allowing same sex marriage, allows the blessing of same sex unions, a position that is busy tearing the church apart with Anglo-Catholics and evangelicals asking themselves what place they still have in the mother church.
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